Chinese white pear

noun

The fruit of a hybrid northeast-Asian pear species, Pyrus × bretschneideri, with the crisp, juicy texture of an apple pear, but with shape and flavor more like those of the European pear.

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Meanings

nounChinese white pear (plural Chinese white pears)

plural Chinese white pears

  1. The fruit of a hybrid northeast-Asian pear species, Pyrus × bretschneideri, with the crisp, juicy texture of an apple pear, but with shape and flavor more like those of the European pear.
  2. A tree producing such fruit.

Translations

Chinese Cantonese 鴨梨 /鸭梨
  • 鴨梨 /鸭梨fruit
Chinese Mandarin 白梨, 鴨梨 /鸭梨
  • 白梨 (báilí)fruit
  • 鴨梨 /鸭梨 (yālí)fruit
Finnish kiinanvalkopäärynä
  • kiinanvalkopäärynäfruit
French poire Ya, poire blanche
  • poire Yafruit
  • poire blanchefruit
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